Desks Quote by Lorine Niedecker

“Poet's Work" Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoffs from this condensery”

— Lorine Niedecker

I'm one of the best condensers in the business.

— Walter Cronkite

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

— William Matthews

“Learning before working is better and cheaper than learning while working!”

— Atlas Gondal

“I have learned these lessons the hard way every time I deviated from them. Let my stalls, sputters, dead-ends and surgeries be your lessons.…

— Dan John

Persist - don't take no for an answer. If you're happy to sit at your desk and not take any risk, you'll be sitting…

— David Rubenstein

“Take your place among experienced professionals by focusing on ways to learn, grow, and succeed.”

— Susan C. Young

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or…

— Robert Fripp

“My father had been a copper miner, uncles and grandfathers worked in the mines for the Union Pacific. So to me, sitting at a…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I learned a ton of things during my time in CNET.

— Matt Mullenweg

“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy…

— Andy Grove

Prepare yourself to be employable.

— Katie Couric